Welsenes (van), Jacques (…-…). Musician

PirroBN, Cpte enfants (G1430) 1425/26: “Copin, enfant sortant”. Acta1059, 209v: Coppinus est emprisonné le 23.4.1456 pour violences sur “fille non diffamée”. Planchart l’a identifié:

Planchart : Jacop van Welsenes (Copin): served as a small vicar from 21 December 1456 to 23 January 1458 [LAN, 4G 7455, 6v; 4G 7456, 7v]. There is a problem in that even though he is entirely absent from the lists of small vicars in 1455-56, acts of 23 and 30 April 1456 refer to him as a small vicar [CBM 1059, 109v, 111v]. The acts recount a bizarre episode, where Jacop, on the night of the 18th or the 19th tried to abduct a young woman, Marie le Clerc, who had come to Cambrai to hear the first mass of a relative, Jaspar Caignet. Her cries alerted the neighbors and she managed to escape into the house of Guillaume Damien de Soignies, grand vicar, where she and her mother were staying, whereupon Jacop tried to enter the house and shouted insults to her and to Caignet. The result was that he was arrested and imprisoned and on 30 April had to do a public penance, on bended knee, seeking the forgiveness of the chapter, the girl and her relatives. There is no record of when he had been received as a small vicar, but often a comparison of the acts shows a delay ranging from a few days to a fortnight between the reception and the time when the vicar actually sang his first service (which is what the wine accounts tally). In this case the resulting scandal might have caused a delay of several months. Jacop held the matutinal chaplaincy of St. John Baptist in 1457-58 and 1458-59 [LAN, 4G 6925, 46v; 4G 6926, 39v], but after that he disappears from the Cambrai records.

Un Coppin est organiste de ND de Bruges en 1462/63 (Strohm1985, p.160).

Lien éventuel avec Coppin Bueckel, à la cour de Bg à partir de 1465.

Un Jacques / Chopin-Copin Basset apparaît parmi les chanteurs de Milan en 1476 (Merkley & Merkley 1999, p. 180)